AMD in embarrassing admission

AMD's announced that it's bringing out a 12 core chip.

The 2010-destined six-core "Sao Paolo" processor and 12-core "Magny-Cours" will incorporate DDR3 memory and an additional HyperTransport 3.0 link. Magny-Cours will use two six-core die in a multi-chip package.

What's funny about this? Well, AMD has been harping on for years about how dreadful it is that Intel's 2 and then 4 core chips were not 'true' 2 and 4 core chips, but rather two 1 or 2 core dies in a multi-chip package. It was basically their entire marketing campaign for the current Barcelona chips. Ah, well, the shoe's on the other foot now, eh?

Intel should have an 8 core chip (a 'true' 8 core chip, as AMD would have said last Thursday) in the same timeline; maybe they can shove two in a package and call it a 16 core.